ARE YOU HUNGRY?

Over 40 million Americans don’t have enough to eat and we want to know why. From redlining to the opioid crisis to the flint water crisis, we're exploring why and what is making food insecurity worse in the United States.

Truthout details the depressing reality of our over-regulated reproductive system—332 anti-abortion provisions were introduced in 43 states in the first three months of the year—but gives glimmers of hope as well.

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“We’re raising our kids in a moment when it’s easier to call 911 than to have a conversation,” writes Kim Brooks for Salon, in an essay that looks at the harm our judgmental nature is causing competent parents everywhere.

Anyone who grew up watching Anne of Green Gables, wasn’t ready to say good-bye to Jonathan Crombie, the actor who played Anne’s love interest Gilbert Blythe. In the New Yorker, Sarah Lawson nails why he captured so many tween hearts.

Many are fighting to show that Black lives matter, but what about Black female lives? The pictures on The Culture of a modest gathering protesting the police killing of a young black woman show a discouraging discrepancy.

“A stranger says something unremarkable yet sinister to you on a train while you eat your lunch of bread and butter.” And that’s just one of Mallory Ortberg’s hilariously spot-on ways to tell over at The Toast.

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